Comerse a Buda

As she did in Dear Leader, her emblematic work on North Korea, reporter Barbara Demick delves once again into the daily life of another of the forgotten corners of our planet, Tibet. Located above three thousand meters of altitude, Ngawa continues to be one of the main centers of resistance of the Tibetans against China. It was there that Tibetans first met Chinese Communists fleeing civil war. Hungry and exhausted, soldiers gobbled up the flour and butter Buddha figures that decorated temples and monasteries before the horrified eyes of the local population. Thus began a story of disagreements that still endures. From the life of a princess expelled during the revolution, a Tibetan nomad who ends up radicalizing, an entrepreneur in love with a Chinese woman, a poet and intellectual voice of the resistance and a girl forced from a young age to choose between her family and money Chinese, the book addresses the dilemma that Tibetans have faced for decades: resist or submit.